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"This Council notes with concern the recent protests which have taken place at the EDO/MBM factory in Moulsecoomb which follow a High Court injunction, and have resulted in several Police arrests. This Council upholds the right of citizens to peaceful and lawful protest. EDO/MBM is part of an American owned group of companies manufacturing bomb release mechanisms, target scanners and weapons interfacing systems for aircraft and tanks. This technology is and has been used in Iraq conflict, where the loss of life is estimated at 100,000 people. These components are manufactured in the companies at the Farm Industrial Estate factory in Moulsecoomb. This Council welcomes the following Peace Message launched by the Brighton & Hove branch of the UN Peace Messenger Association: BRIGHTON & HOVE PEACE MESSAGE The City of Brighton & Hove is proud of being a UN Peace Messenger City, one of only 80 world-wide. The city's tradition of welcoming diversity in residents and visitors alike is well established and internationally recognised. We celebrate every individual's right to live in peace and harmony, to learn and prosper in their communities, alongside people of all cultures, abilities and religions, irrespective of gender and sexuality, education, age or background. The people of Brighton & Hove want to retain the reputation of being a City of Peace. Whilst we welcome all visitors and all peaceful trade in Brighton & Hove, we the undersigned, deplore the manufacture or trade of armaments and weapon components within the city. This trade is immoral and unwelcome and has no place in a UN Peace Messenger City". This Council accordingly resolves: To add the name of the City Council to the message To fly the UN Flag from Council buildings on September 21 2005, The International Day of Peace, and in subsequent years thereafter to show the city's support for the values that organisation espouses. (That'll show the bastards! RM) |
In other words, any reference to EDOs activities was taken out and we're left with the usual Neo-labour mish-mash of meaningless feelgood rhetoric.
A spokesperson for the SMASH EDO campaign said "It's about time that Brighton & Hove was stripped of its Peace Messenger City status; it's just total fucking hypocrisy".
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WANKERS CORNER |
 Bent Kodfish |
KODDERS' KRIMES
Continuing with Rough Music's theme of sticking the boot in to the bastards who are 'rebranding' our city, this month our well-polished toe-caps make contact with the toupeed pate of Ken 'Kodfish' Bodfish, Neo - Labour fuhrer of Brighton & Hove Council, Ernie Wise to Fanshawe's Eric Morecambe, and quango-crat extraordinaire. Much of the blame for everything can be laid firmly at his door - which incidentally is at 26 East Drive, Queens Park, if you'd like to drop him a friendly letter.
*'Kodders', as he probably doesn't call himself, is a public-spirited cove. He set up a team of community workers working directly with the cops and the council to tackle 'hate crimes'. "If we are really to protect the most vulnerable people and communities we must tackle the prejudice and hatred which motivates perpetrators of hate crime. The new team's challenge will be a step towards achieving this." 'Vulnerable people and communities' obviously being the new media hordes and trendy boutique owners who are tired of the 'hate crimes' of street drinkers and unlicensed beggars, because that's who Kodders & co have come down hardest on.
*Kodders' casting vote gave the go-ahead to the huge Gehry King Alfred development, which will bring shit-loads more posh apartments to an area unable to cope with the added population - not to mention the big cars the rich'll undoubtedly need to drive. The developers promise to bring 'a riot of colour' to Brighton, a city that would probably be better served by a colourful riot.
*On the first day of the recent Teaching Assistants' Strike, Kodders condemned the walk out as 'a very selfish act'. Yet when the strike rally was going on, the council confirmed a salary of £145,000 for their new Chief Executive, Alan McCarthy, and voted themselves a 2.5% increase in allowances. Bastards.
* Kodders has got council decisions in his pocket, making private 'hush hush' deals with Tories behind closed doors before official meetings. Two-facedly he is refusing demands to include 'other' parties - eg the Greens. "There has already been collusion between these parties," says green councillor and wannabe MP Keith Taylor, "How can the public trust a council where important decisions have been stitched up in advance?" (Wanna join in the nepotistic gravy train fun eh Keith?)
* When the Green Party put a resolution to press for UK intervention in the case of refugee Omar Deghayes (see back page of this issue), which won cross-party support from all leaders… guess who pissed in Omar's pint? Kodders. "We have to be mindful of the terrorist threat" he said. Perhaps Mr Deghayes likes to drink in the street.
* Even Simon Cowell, TV's celebrated 'Mr Nasty' off of Pop Idol, hates Kodfish. Why? Cos Kodders has his best blinkers on when it comes to the Horsedean Park 'n' Ride scheme (see Allotment article), which will flatten the RSPCA shelter where Cowells' mum helps out. Kodders has made it clear he won't rest until all the injured badgers are thrown beneath the tracks of giant earth-raping machines.
* Kodders don't come
cheap- his 'personal expenses' alone for 2003 came in at £30,000!
And when he's not hassling the underclass, encouraging huge &
vile private developments and conniving with Tories, he fucks off
on cycling holidays to Tuscany. 'Where else would a New Labour politician
go?' he smirks. We're sure you can think of a few suitable destinations…
RM says: 'Death to the fascist insect who preys upon the life of the people.'
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 John Tyndall on crowd pleasing form |
ROT IN PEACE
HOVE'S No. 1 NAZI DEAD
The news that John Tyndall, Brighton's leading Nazi, bit the dust (and ascended to Valhalla no doubt) on July 13th will have caused belly laughter and toasts to be raised across the city. One goose-stepping moron down, how many more to go? According to the Nationalist Alliance web site (www.nationalist.net - if you want to check out the charming photos of the master race on display) John Tyndall (or 'JT' to those on the white supremacist cocktail circuit) was an inspiration and the rock on which modern British nationalism was built. In real life he was ousted by the new BNP leadership after dragging them into street fights they invariably lost. Frustrated by this he wandered further and further into the obscure fringes of racist politics.
In his twilight years John Tyndall cowered behind CCTV and a steel door in Hove, emerging only to deliver tub-thumping rants like a third rate Hitler tribute act. A hardline anti-semite with links to the Tory racist right, the sieg-heiling septuagenarian was a regular feature at fascist rallies. Like David Irving without the wit, his speeches were full of the usual inconsistencies of those who try to square an admiration for Adolf et al with a flag-waving pride in the British Empire - and he was due in court in Leeds this Thursday on a charge of inciting racial hatred after being exposed by the BBC. A BNP spokesman said that he had been "hounded to his death by the crown prosecution service and the police" and suggested his death may have been the result of stress. Rough Music reckons his bones should be dug up and made to stand trial.
According to Tyndall's bizarre view of the universe we are all covertly controlled by ZOG (or Zoltan out of Battle of the Planets, we're not quite sure) a Jewish Zionist conspiracy which promotes capitalism, communism and hardline Islam. Confused? We certainly are. If these drivellings had been safely kept in the nursing home then we'd have said fair enough; free speech and all that. Unfortunately he seems to have gathered a cabal of losers around him. The White Nationalist Alliance (a collection of boneheads, Odinists, racists, eugenicists, homophobes, holocaust deniers and all the usual small minded no-hopers who feel the need to blame their personal failings on a mysterious conspiracy) held their first public meeting in Brighton on July 9th. Tyndall was top of the bill, and maybe it was the excitement of ranting to the same three men and a dog which caused his fatal heart attack just four days later.
Well they said 'public meeting' but of course their attempt at spreading their message of dim witted hate was cancelled when the Hikers' Rest pub, in Coldean, found out who they were. According to their website, they were forced to reconvene elsewhere. A large number of anti-fascists turned up at their rally point at Moulsecoomb station to be met by van loads of coppers there to protect any Nazis who dared show their faces. Not the most auspicious start to the Fourth Reich perhaps! Local organiser Sid Williamson (a fine example of a Nordic Stormtrooper if a tad pot bellied) would perhaps like to suggest a tune for our sponsored dance on Tyndall's grave. Bavarian Rhapsody? Shine on you Nazi Diamond?
So when's the funeral? Anybody who feels that JT shouldn't be interred without a good send off please contact Rough Music and we'll do our best to get a crowd.
Our House in the Middle of Our Street
Defend Council Housing is gearing up for an almighty battle now that Brighton Council have decided to go down the money-grabbing route of housing stock firesale. Speaking in support of the decision Cllr Don Turner (neo-Labour) said that our council homes were "very old, and well past their sell-by date", prompting disbelief from people living in much older, private sector, drums. To get involved in the campaign contact Ruth Arundell on 608704
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EB 4 WHO??
A little while ago, Brighton and Hove Council decided to 'independently' investigate suspected dodgy dealings at EB4U, the Euro-funded 'regeneration project' based in Whitehawk and Moulsecoomb. A 'Scrutiny Panel' was set up to interview - over the course of the last few months - residents, projects and workers for any complaints or allegations about EB4U. What seems to have been overlooked is that if you were involved with EB4U in any way, either as a resident on a decision-making group or as a worker in a funded project, then you would've had to sign a contract forbidding you to in any way openly criticize EB4U. This goes double if you actually work for EB4U: the penalty is the sack. And to make sure that this contract has not accidentally slipped from anyone's memory, EB4U's director Graham Maunders (who awarded himself £60K a year of that 'regenerate-a-deprived-area' Euro-dosh) gets to 'sit-in' on the 'independent' meetings of the Scrutiny Panel after first demanding that any potential complainer submit their 'evidence' first in a private letter to him!
JET-JAM
Shoreham anti-airport campaigners Communities Against Runway Expansion are appealing for any sign writers/printers out there who can help with a row of anti-airport signs for a stretch of road along the A27 to get in touch with CARE co-ordinator Jean Kitchener on 01903 535334. Long way off, but a picket will be held outside the airshow Sept 5-12th. A public meeting showing the anti-expansion video made by campaigners is planned for the Cowley Club also in September, date tbc. www.adurcare.wanadoo.co.uk
SAVE OMAR DEGHAYES CAMPAIGNOmar Deghayes is a 35 year old married man and father, originally from Libya, and a resident of Saltdean since 1987, who was arrested in Pakistan and has now been held in solitary confinement in Camp Delta, Guatanamo Bay since 2002. He has not been charged with any offence and the only evidence produced against him is a video tape, which the Americans claim links him with terrorists but which experts have dismissed as a case of mistaken identity. His lawyer Clive Stafford Smith claims his client has been tortured by American soldiers, leaving him blind in one eye. The British Government, which had previously claimed it could not help, as he is a British resident, not a British national, has bowed to public pressure, and agreed to present the family's concerns about his treatment to US officials. Write letters of support to Omar or send gifts of shampoo, toothpaste, books - particularly poetry, music, boxer shorts, and anything else you can think of to Omar Deghayes, c/o Brighton Peace and Environment Centre, 39-41 Surrey St, Brighton BN1 3PB. His lawyer will despatch these things to Camp Delta. Email jackie.chase@virgin.net |
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What Is Rough Music?Yes it's an odd title. You're going... what the hell is "rough music"? Who the hell are we and what do we want? Rough
music is a Sussex tradition dating back centuries. It was
a form of punishment for those who had offended their communities;
people like profi teering landlords, wife-beaters or kiddie-fi
ddlers. In the past lovely people like these were a lot harder
to prosecute using the law. So people took matters into their
own hands. Taking what ever they could to make some noise
with them, they would stand outside the miscreant's house
and make as much noise as possible. If they were successful
the offender was often driven out completely. Although such
gatherings were illegal they happened throughout Sussex with
the last ones recorded as happening as late as the 1950's. We want to show how the people of Brighton are making plenty of Rough Music of their own. How people are making Rough Music against City Council and big business profi teering feeding frenzies. How they are making Rough Music for those who treat their employees like dirt. How they are making Rough Music for businesses that think that the environment and the quality of people's lives is a secondary consideration to the important task of making mega-profi ts. From EDO/MBM the bomb makers to Brighton and Hove City Council, from the Shoreham Airport stitch-up to the sneaking encroachment of the supermarkets into every corner of the city; we say, bring on the music! Boss
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